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Husband sues for right to touch wife in NM nursing home amid COVID-19 pandemic By KOAT Staff | December 31, 2020 at 4:03 AM CST - Updated December 31 at 6:59 AM SANTA FE, N.M. (KOAT) - A New Mexico man fought the law for the right to touch his wife, and he appears to have won. A state judge ruled to change a health order that has forced the couple apart during the COVID-19 pandemic. The story of Gary Hein and Ann Severine is one of love, isolation, loneliness and a pandemic. The couple of m...

Beginning on Monday, the vast majority of the nation’s long term care facilities will rely on Walgreens and CVS pharmacists to vaccinate their residents and staff. A New Mexico judge this week decided in favor of 78-year-old Gary Hein, who sued the state for keeping him apart from his wife, who currently lives in a nursing home, during the coronavirus pandemic, according to local reports. The New Mexico Health Department must revise a provision enacted in March allowing nursing homes t...

Two Santa Fe men who sued for the right to visit relatives in hospice care during the state’s pandemic-related restrictions won one battle this week when a judge ruled an order authorizing nursing homes to create their own criteria for banning visitors was unconstitutional. State District Judge Matthew Wilson on Monday ordered the secretary of the New Mexico Department of Health to strike the provision from the public health order and to revisit the order’s language with consideration...